'Nomadland' wins top prize at masked and distanced Venice film festival
msn.comBy Hanna RantalaVENICE (Reuters) - "Nomadland", a U.S. movie about a community of van dwellers traversing the vast American West, won the Golden Lion award for best film at the Venice film festival on Saturday.The film, by U.S.-based Chinese director Chloe Zhao, stars Frances McDormand as a widow in her 60s in a depressed Nevada mining town who turns her van into a mobile home and sets out on the road, taking on seasonal jobs along the way.The festival on the Lido waterfront was the first such event to go ahead in front of live audiences since the COVID-19 pandemic all but shut down the world of showbiz."Thank you so much for letting us come to your festival in this weird, weird, weird world and way," McDormand said in a video message with.
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